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Amy Bix
Program Coordinator
History of Technology
and Science
603 Ross Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
515-294-0122
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Contributing Faculty
Department of History
639 Ross
294-1373
cdobbs@iastate.edu
Professor of History, (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978), American
diplomatic history, American military history, East Asian history,
the Cold War, history of military technology, author of 2 books in
history and 3 outside of history, 17 scholarly refereed articles,
and nearly 300 encyclopedia entries.
Department of History
645 Ross
294-3828
andrewsj@iastate.edu
Associate Professor of History, Co-Director, Center for Historical
Studies of Technology and Science, and Co-Director, Graduate Program
in History of Technology and Science (Ph.D., University of Chicago,
1994) social and cultural history of Russian/Soviet science and technology;
science, society and public culture; intersection of science, technology,
and popular culture in a comparative EurAsian context.
Department of History
621 Ross Hall
294-1284
mdbailey@iastate.edu
Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998),
specializing in high and late medieval religious and cultural history,
especially the history of magic, witchcraft, superstition, and the
historical interaction of religion, magic, and science. Michael Bailey's
first book, Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in
the Late Middle Ages, explored the rise of ideas of diabolical
witchcraft in the context of fifteenth-century religious culture.
His Magic and Superstition in Europe (forthcoming) traces
the history of magic and superstition from ancient times to the present,
with particular attention given to medieval condemnations of magic,
early-modern witch-hunts, and the interplay between learned Renaissance
magic, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. His current
research deals with clerical authorities' deployment of the category
of superstition in the late-medieval period. He has also written a
Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft, as well as several articles
in academic journals. He has held fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright
program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Humanities
Forum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Department of History
643 Ross Hall
294-6696
greggs@iastate.edu
Assistant Professor of History, (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004),
specializing in U.S. environmental, agricultural, and political history,
with a focus on land use and land policy. She is currently revising
the manuscript for her first book, Contested Commons: Subsistence
Agriculture, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape
in Appalachia, and embarking on a new project, which addresses
the environmental impacts of the free land policies of the U.S. government
in the decades following the 1862 Homestead Act. She teaches courses
on U.S. environmental, agricultural, and landscape history, as well
as surveys of the history of the United States and the U.S. West.
She was a predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution from 2002-2004,
and in 2005 received a SPRIG grant from Iowa State University to develop
a GIS database for tracing and analyzing land use patterns in Appalachia.
She most recently received a summer research grant from the ISU Center
for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
433 Catt Hall
294-0053
rholling@iastate.edu
Prof of Philosophy (PhD Wisconsin, 1972). Major interests: philosophy
of social and behavioral sciences; sociological theory; philosophy
of technology; STS and philosophy of science (including feminism);
19th-20th century European and American Intellectual history; democratic
theory; Nietzsche and Heidegger; educational theory and the university
(democratic education). Some relevant publications: Postmodernism
and the Social Sciences: A Thematic Approach (Sage, 1994); The
Dark Side of Liberalism: Elitism vs Democracy (Praeger, 1995);
Pragmatism: From Positivism to Postmodernism (co-editor);
Hermeneutics and Praxis (editor). Current project: Withering
Ivy: A View from the Vine a critique of the corporate university
and certain versions of cultural studies, which, I argue, are in effect
-- if not intent-- conspiring to destroy the liberal ideal of the
university, and the educational ideals of the university in general.
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Kevin Amidon
Department of World Languages and Cultures
300 Pearson
294-4046
ksamidon@iastate.edu Assistant Professor of German Studies in the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures (Ph.D., Princeton, 2001). Kevin Amidon's
current large-scale project, entitled The Diagnosis of Difference:
Practice and Persuasion in German Biology, 1890-1945, explores
the relationships between investigational and persuasive practice
in the proliferating German life sciences around and after 1900. He
also continues to work on musical and opera culture in German-speaking
Europe, and has published on Ernst Krenek, Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht,
and Franz Kafka. During 2003-2004 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of
the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the
Freie Universität Berlin.
Emily Godbey
Department of Art and Design
388 Design
294-8422
egodbey@iastate.edu
Assistant Professor of Art and Design (PhD University of Chicago
2005; MFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1993). Emily Godbey specializes
in the history of photography and early film and is interested in
the ways that creativity and technology intersect in image-making.
She teaches courses on material culture, gender and art, and popular
visual culture. Her publications include a meditation on the mapping
of the Aztec capital in "Seeing the New World as the Old: The
1524 Map of Tenochtitlán" in 'Itinerario,' an analysis of the
use of photography as a technological tool for healing in "Picture
Me Sane: Photography and the Magic Lantern in a Nineteenth-Century
Asylum" in 'American Studies,' and a consideration on early microscopic
films and germ theory in "The Cinema of (Un)attractions: The
Microscopic On Screen" in 'Allegories of Communication: Intermedial
Concerns from Cinema to the Digital (Stockholm Studies in Cinema)'.
Due out at the end of this summer is a new article on the 1889 Johnstown
flood and its photographic representations: "Disaster Tourism,
Thanatourism, and the Melodrama of Authenticity: Revisiting the 1889
Johnstown Flood" in 'Pennsylvania History_,
Summer 2006. She is currently working on a presentation involving
speed, technology, and the Iowa State Fair for the SHOT conference
in October 2006 in Las Vegas. She has been a Whiting Fellow of the
University of Chicago's Franke Center for the Humanities, and she
recently received a grant from Iowa State's Center for Excellence
in the Arts and Humanities.
Thomas Leslie, IAIA
Department of Architecture
589 Design
294-8460
tleslie@iastate.edu
Associate Professor of Architecture (M.Arch Columbia 1992). Thomas
Leslie researches and writes on the role of building construction
and engineering in architectural design. His 2005 book, Louis
I Kahn: Building Art, Building Science explored the importance
of these issues in some of Kahn's masterworks. Currently he is researching
the role of industry and material in the evolution of the Chicago
skyscraper from 1880 to 1920. He teaches courses in building technology,
design, and history. Prior to teaching, he practiced for seven years
with Norman Foster and Partners, a London design firm known for its
integration of engineering and architecture.
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
431 Catt Hall
294-2484
ghull@iastate.edu
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Ph.D. Vanderbilt, 2000). Gordon Hull works in philosophy of technology and in political philosophy, with a general emphasis on 'continental' thought. He is currently completing a book manuscript on Thomas Hobbes that studies Hobbes's contributions to a distinctly 'modern' (in the seventeenth-century sense) view of political philosophy. He has written several papers on contemporary issues in law and technology, with a particular emphasis on intellectual property and the ways that digitality forces alterations in our underlying legal and political theory. He has a paper due out this fall that critiques the Supreme Court's 2003 decision upholding a requirement for library filtering programs, and is working on a piece that
critically examines Lockean justifications for strong intellectual property rights. He teaches a course in the philosophy of technology
every semester.
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Michael J. Golec
Department of Art and Design
Departmentof Architecture
389 Design
294-3796
mjg402@iastate.edu
Assistant Professor of Art and Design History (PhD Northwestern University
2003). Michael J. Golec researches and writes on historical issues that
arise from the intersections of design, science, and technology. Professor
Golec has taught courses on the visual culture of the sciences and the
impact of technology on culture. His research interests include representations
of science for a non-scientific public and perfection and the technological
enhancement of the home. His "Visual Style and Forms of Science
in the Cold War" is forthcoming in Visible Culture: Design Artifacts
and Participated Meaning and "Vision and Blindness in Ray and Charles
Eames' Powers of Ten" in Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life
Sciences.
Carl Herndl
Department of English
357 Ross
294-7590
chg@iastate.edu
Carl Herndl teaches rhetoric, critical, and literary theory in the
Department of English. He writes about the way language maintains
and alters social relations and cultural formations, and especially
about possibilities or cases of rhetoric as a means for cultural and
institutional resistance and change. He has recently written about
the rhetorical forms of liberation theology and the movement for social
change in Latin America. He also writes about the role of rhetoric
in the constitution of scientific knowledge and in the relations between
science and political and social practice. In 1996, he co-edited Green
Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America, a volume
which analyzed environmental discourse and the way discourse both
facilitates and complicates environmental action. Most recently, he
has been working in agricultural ecology studying the way science,
policy, and social practices together determine the conditions and
possibilities for rhetorical action. He has been a faculty affiliate
in the Statistical Sciences Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
since 2003, and he is currently a member of two ongoing research projects
in agricultural ecology at ISU. He teaches a graduate seminar in the
"Rhetorical Study of Science" in the Rhetoric and Professional
Communication program in the Department of English.
Department of Architecture
587 Design
294-5026
zarecor@iastate.edu
Assistant Professor of Architecture (M.Arch, Columbia, 1999; Ph.D. Columbia,
anticipated 2007) Kimberly Elman Zarecor researches the cultural and
technological history of architecture in 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
Her dissertation, “Modernist Dreams: Architecture, Politics and the
Housing Question in Czechoslovakia, 1945-60,” focuses on the intersection
of architects, housing design, and the state apparatus between 1945
and 1960. The project follows the development and deployment of standardized
mass-housing types such as the prefabricated structural panel building
and examines the relationship between Communism and architecture in
the Eastern Bloc. She teaches architectural design and architectural
history at Iowa State including classes on housing design, utopian thinking
in architecture, the American city and modernism in East Central Europe.
Her publications include ““Ji_í Kroha Reconsidered” in Um_ní and “Garden
Cities and Company Towns: Tomá_ Bat’a and the Formation of Zlín, Czechoslovakia”
in the Harriman Review. She has received numerous fellowships and research
grants including a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
(2002-2003), an ACLS Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship (2003-2004) and
a research grant from the Iowa State Center for Excellence in the Arts
and Humanities (2006).
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